On: Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?

[kyriakos]

There are many successful companies and start ups that use PHP. The same way they exist for other languages and platforms.

No start up became a unicorn because of the programming language they used.

[cutler → kyriakos]

With the possible exception of Clojure :). See Paul Graham on Lisp as the secret weapon.

[KingMob → cutler]

What's the biggest Clojure start-up at the moment? Is it CircleCI?

Wal-Mart is pretty big into Clojure these days, but they were already huge.

[cutler → KingMob]

Here in London there's Funding Circle and uSwitch. The Daily Mail (MailOnline) also uses quite a lot of Clojure.

[alfredallan1 → kyriakos]

Whatsapp.

[kyriakos → alfredallan1]

whats whatsapp built on?

[scns → kyriakos]

Erlang and FreeBSD